The suburban Chicago-based salesman has 22 years of experience at crane builder UESCO Industries, and three years at Dearborn Crane & Engineering.

“When I first started working on cranes, wound rotor motors with resistors where the main means of control for a crane with a variable speed motion and a hoist with a mechanical load brake was the way to go. As my knowledge and experience have grown, I now believes inverter control and a non-load brake hoist is better,” he told Hoist.

He replaces Seppo Molsa, who has moved to Germany to sell primarily Hevi-Lift hoists for Morris Material Handling, Inc in Europe.